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<DIV><SPAN class=590091120-30072003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Actually, the best mariachi band I've ever heard was in San Antonio,
Texas and had a xylophone, but no trumpets. Tex-Mex polka is a distinct
sound, though. Black Bart puzzles me. I've been a devoted western
fan, books, movies, TV since age 5 at least. Was the program on TV or a
movie serial? Do you remember the actor? The real Black Bart was a bandit
in 1860's California who would leave a poem at the scene of his robberies-hence
'Black Bart the Po-8' as he named himself.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=590091120-30072003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Jim
Eyskens</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=590091120-30072003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>I
admit the above is off the subject, but I'm curious</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader lang=en-us dir=ltr align=left><FONT
face=Tahoma size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> Road to Santiago
Pilgrimage [mailto:GOCAMINOaPETE.URI.EDU] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Elizabeth
Boylston-Morris<BR><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, July 31, 2003 12:22 AM<BR><B>To:</B>
GOCAMINOaPETE.URI.EDU<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: New Santiago equestrian statue
and nature of Santiago<BR><BR></FONT></DIV><FONT face=arial,helvetica><FONT
lang=0 face=Verdana size=3 FAMILY="SANSSERIF">Los Tigres del Norte did not
wear Mariachi suits nor played mariachi music. Their music was called,
by one of them, Tex-Mex polka and it did sound polka-like.<BR>Unlike mariachi
groups they did not have trumpets, or violins, or any of the instruments that
mariachi play. The instruments of the Tigres were pretty much those
electrified instruments used by rock groups, plus an accordion.<BR>Black Bart
was a character in old western stories and cowboy movies. He always wore
black, western hat and all, and hung out in bars gating into all sorts
of adventurous trouble.<BR>I still don't know where the group "La Oreja de
VanGogh", (Van Gogh's Ear), comes from, apparently it is a European rock
group from Spain of some renown.<BR></BLOCKQUOTE></FONT></FONT></BODY></HTML>